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Day 3: Feeling SKEPTICAL
Wondering if "cleansing" and "detox" is for real.
Date: 5/2/2008 8:10:08 AM ( 16 y ) ... viewed 3053 times To keep myself motivated this afternoon I've been reading around on the Internet about detoxing, flushing, fasting and cleansing and I'm starting to wonder if some of these ideas are indeed quackery:
A pathologist quoted on Quackwatch about "Mucoid Plaque"
Wikipedia on 'Mucoid Plaque'
Skeptoid on 'The Detoxification Myth'
Montreal Gazette article on April 5, 2008
Come to think of it, even as I've browsed the Curezone.com forums over the last few years, I don't recall seeing any posts from people who passed "mucoid plaque" without using bentonite and psyllium "kits" they ordered online. The last time I fasted, some interesting things came out of me, but they might have just been stragglers from whatever I'd eaten most recently and, in my vain search for MP, wondered if it were age-old toxins loosened from the walls of my bowels.
Most disturbing was this article from Quackwatch.com: The Truth about Gallbladder and Liver "Flushes", which cites Curezone.com's photos of flushed gallstones as not real gallstones, since they could be cut with a knife. The article did acknowledge that oil and Epsom salt do have an effect on bile ducts, just as "whole milk and a Mars bar" would, but the likelihood of passing stones from this method is extremely rare, and that most people aren't full of stones anyway. And I'd just spent a pretty penny on a big bottle of expensive Extra Virgin Olive Oil this afternoon!
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